The National Police has arrested twelve pedophiles, four of them minors, who exchanged child sexual abuse material, and has dismantled a web page through which this type of images was allegedly sold.

The website administrator was in Portugal and was detained by the Police of that country thanks to the indications of the Central Cybercrime Unit, the Police reported this Tuesday in a statement.

The operation subsequently carried out allowed the identification and arrest of twelve people in Barcelona, ​​Gerona, Sabadell (Barcelona), Cáceres, Albacete, Cádiz, Castellón, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia and Valencia, who exchanged material through a messaging network snapshot.

The investigation began thanks to citizen information that put the agents on the trail of the website, where they collected enough data that allowed the tracking and location of its administrator.

When determining his location in Portugal, the National Police requested, with the support of Europol and Interpol, the collaboration of the Portuguese Public Security agents, who arrested the suspect, who was subsequently sent to prison.

The agents continued the investigation that allowed the full identification of the entire network of pedophiles;

they had made contact on the web and used mobile phone messaging applications to exchange sexual material of minors.

"Some of them exhibited humorous attitudes towards the abuse of children and had a compulsive consumption of illegal material", underlines the Police.

Among the detainees, there is an individual from Malaga who was the most active member and with the highest volume of illegal material, 38 videos of very young children subjected to serious sexual abuse.

The Police highlights the youth of the detainees.

One of the four minors arrested, detained in Barcelona, ​​had shared 49 videos and 9 photographs of very young girls in a very short space of time.

Seven of those arrested are in their twenties and the mobile phone was the main means of committing the crime.

In its statement, the Police warn of the risk that minors have access to the internet without adult supervision and urges parents to assess whether they need the mobile phone outside the home.

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